Table 3 Regional scale core Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models & Socio-Economic Indicators Project metrics

Outcome	Metric	Tier	Habitat restoration (7 project types)	Oyster restoration (6 project types)	Recreational enhancement (3 project types)	Water quality improvement (7 project types)
Common across all project types and categories
Economic activity: restoration/intervention	Change in economic activity from restoration spending	2	7^a	6^a	3^a	7^a
Additional metrics for specific project categories
Cultural values: knowledge	Awareness: number of people with additional knowledge of habitat effects and other project outcomes on broader scale.	2	6^a	3^a	2^a	3^a
Cultural values: other	Program-identified cultural value	2	5^a	6^a	3^a	2^a
Economic activity: recreation and tourism	Change in economic activity from recreational fishing	2	5^a	3^a	2^a	2^a
Economic activity: finfish/shellfish harvest	Change in economic activity from project-associated commercial fish harvest	2	4^a	3^a	0	2^a

The four right-hand columns (one for each project category) indicate the number of individual project types within that category that are strongly linked to the regional scale metric, meaning that the project type is expected to meaningfully influence the metric.
^athe metric is strongly linked to at least half of the project types within the project category and is considered a core metric for that category.

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